An Introduction to
Drupal
by Jared McFarland

What is Drupal?

CMS
• Content Management System
• A way for non-developers and non-
programmers to manage content
• Control panels instead of code

Admin Controls

Open Source
• 800 Core contributors
• 5 Branch Maintainers
• 1 Core Commiter

Under the hood

Stack
• Linux (BSD, Mac OS, Windows, Solaris)
• Apache (lighttpd, IIS)
• MySQL (PostgresSQL, SQL Server, Oracle)
• PHP

Core

Modules

Themes
• Multiple template engines available
(PHPTemplate)
• Total customization

Drupal

Examples

Bookmans

Sony Music Artists

New York Observer

Resources

Websites
• Drupal
• drupal.org
• Tucson and Southern Arizona DUG
• groups.drupal.org/tucson-and-southern-arizona
• TDAC
• http://tucsondigitalarts.com/groups/drupal-users

Books
• Pro Drupal Development, Second Edition,
John K VanDyk

Other
• IRC
• irc.freenode.net #drupal
• Commercial Support
• Acquia -- acquia.com

Me!
• Email
• jaredm@bookmans.com
• Chat
• GTalk: jared.online
• Other
• jared-mcfarland.com
• Twitter
• jaredmcfarland

Questions?